What We Know About the August Egg Company Salmonella Outbreak
CDC and FDA linked 134 Salmonella Enteritidis illnesses, 38 hospitalizations (of 112 people with information available), and 1 death in California to brown shell eggs supplied by August Egg Company of Hilmar, California. Sick people lived in 10 states. California had 109 cases, followed by Arizona (8), Nevada (4), Washington (4), Colorado (2), Nebraska (2), New Jersey (2), Kansas (1), Kentucky (1), and Utah (1). The investigation closed on July 10, 2025.
How Investigators Linked August Egg Company
State and local health officials interviewed 41 sick people about what they ate in the week before they got sick, and 37 of them (90%) reported eating eggs. Officials also found clusters of sick people who ate at the same restaurants, and every one served eggs. People had bought many egg brands at different stores, so FDA traced where they shopped or ate and identified August Egg Company as a common supplier.
FDA’s first inspection at August Egg Company’s processing facility found two environmental samples matching the outbreak strain. A later inspection at cage-free laying houses used by the company found three more matches by whole genome sequencing, and FDA said it’s working with both firms on corrective and preventive actions. CDC’s lab testing also predicted the outbreak strain would resist some commonly recommended antibiotics, so some patients who needed antibiotics may have required a different one.
The Recall Covered Many Brand Names
On June 6, 2025, August Egg Company recalled 1,700,000 dozen brown cage-free and brown certified organic eggs distributed from February 3 to May 15, 2025. The eggs were sold under names including Clover, First Street, Nulaid, O Organics, Marketside, Raleys, Simple Truth, Sun Harvest, and Sunnyside, with sell-by dates from March 4 through June 19, 2025. The eggs went to Save Mart, FoodMaxx, Lucky, Smart & Final, Safeway, Raleys, Food 4 Less, and Ralphs stores in California and Nevada, and to Walmart stores in Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Washington, and Wyoming.
Your Legal Rights
If you ate recalled August Egg Company eggs, at home or in a restaurant, and developed a laboratory-confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis infection, you may be entitled to compensation for medical expenses, hospitalization costs, lost income, pain and suffering, and other damages. Hospitalization or complications like reactive arthritis may affect what a claim includes.
Ron Simon & Associates is a food poisoning law firm that has recovered over $850 million for victims nationwide. In June 2025, we filed the first lawsuit against August Egg Company with Gomez Trial Attorneys, in Sonoma County, California, on behalf of a woman who was hospitalized after eating eggs she bought at a California Safeway. You pay our law firm nothing unless we recover compensation for you. Contact us for a free consultation at 1-888-335-4901.